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Tokyo 2020: Sun Yang not at China Nationals but could still swim at Olympic Games
- Star swimmer had been reported to return to pool in Qingdao but was left off the official list as he awaits CAS retrial
- While Nationals are a Tokyo qualifying event, there is another in June and three-time Olympic champ also won at the 2019 worlds
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China’s star swimmer Sun Yang will not swim at the Chinese Nationals, despite reports that he would return to the pool for the first time since the 2019 World Championships.
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The official athlete list was shared on Weibo by CCTV-5 sports reporter Sun Xiaoxue on Thursday, the day before the start of the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games qualifying event in Qingdao, Shandong province.
This followed a post earlier in the day from the Zhejiang Provincial Sports Bureau that did not list Sun among their swimmers.
The Nationals, which take place until May 8, will be followed by another event for swimmers to meet their Olympic qualification benchmarks in early June, as per a Chinese Swimming Association statement reported by China News Service in March.
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Sun is currently eligible to swim again after his eight-year ban from CAS, which was handed down in February last year following the November 2019 trial, was overturned in December.
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